Maverick Vinales predicted his barnstorming performance moments before the Qatar MotoGP, his team boss has revealed.

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tech3 KTM rider, from sꦚixth on the grid, incredibly overtoo🔯k both factory Ducatis, Pecco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez, then claimed the race lead from Franco Morbidelli.

Vinales thought his P2 finish was KTM’s first - and much-needed ღ- podium of the year but he was demoted to 14th due 🌊to a tyre pressure penalty.

His unexpec💟ted surge last Sunday in Q♔atar was, however, predicted by the man himself.

“Maverick was𝕴 unbelievable,” Tech3 KTM boss Herve Poncharal told TNT Sports in Qatar.

“He has such a passio꧃n for his job, for rꩵiding a motorcycle.

“He is acting and behaving like a teenager w🥂ho is riding for the very first time! Full of happiness, enthusiasm!

“He told me: ‘I’ll do somℱething tonight, believe me…’

✃“When I saw him pass the two red bikes and, at some stage, break away a bit? I coul♎dn’t believe it.

“It’s a long time that we hadn’t felt that.

“The whole Red B♒ull KTM project needed it. I don’t want to say what happened in the winter.

“Vinales has shown the other three ride📖rs that they can do it.

“Davide Tardozzi came to see me in parc ferme an⭕d told me ‘we need other manufaꦕcturers to push us to make the championship more interesting’.”

Maverick Vinales ‘golden opportunity lost’

A day earlier, on Saturday in Qatar, Vinales had qualified in sixth. But he drably finished the sprint race 10th, eradi🐷cating the quiet confidence within the Tech3 KTM box.

But they knew their rider had more in the tank.

“It came from hard work during the winter,” P💜oncharal said about Vinales’ Sun♊day efforts.

“In Texas we were fast but unfortunately, in the sprint and the main race, we were hampered by a probl🎃em.

“But we knew Maverick was getting more comfortable on the bike, more competitive with the💧 front guys.

“We had a goౠod qualifying [in Qatar]. Straight to Q2 for ꦗthe second time in a row, sixth on the grid.

“So it doesn’t come from ꦜnowhere. In the sprint we made the choice to go with so💙ft tyres which was a disaster.

“But we knew tꦫhat we could finish in the top five.

“Hones๊tly, I said to myseꦅlf: ‘This was a golden opportunity lost’.”

Maverick Vinales ‘not the kind of rider…’

Poncharal had already exclusively t꧒old wuqian0821.com about the buoyant reaction of Vinales a♓fter his tyre pressure penalty which lifted his enti🌃re team.

Poncharal insists that thꩲe MotoGP ꦚveteran has impressed with his childlike enthusiasm since joining from Aprilia.

“At some stage, when you’re a top rider, you know that you’re a top rider,” Ponc☂ha▨ral said.

“It becomes a job. You care about your image, you care about your salary, about who’sౠ looking after y♐our bike.

“The feeling I have so far, Maverick is just like a rookie joining the ch🦩ampionship.

“He has so much passion, he just wants to ri🎉de. Even 𒁏though we had some problems, he always smiles.

“He is not the kind of rider - and I’ve had a few of them - who come back into the box and👍 de🦩stroy everything.

“He is an incredibly nice young man. I was with him, his wife and his 🦂two daughters - he isn’t somebody who is blase, he is enjoying life personally and professionally.

“He loves KTM, he says that he has some orange blood! He remembers winnin✤g the Moto3 title and how Pit Beirer treated him.”

Tech3 KTM 2025 bike?

The Tech3 KTM team benefit from factory support.

But identifying whether their bike is a 2025 or 2024 version is not as ꦅstraightforward as it seems.

“It is a ‘24.something! Or a ‘25 minus somethiℱng,” Poncharal said.

“It is very difficult. You saw Ducati had the ‘25 but went back to t𝔉he ‘24 plus soღmething.

“The bike is l𓆏ast year’s bike with some minor🦩 improvements.

“The engines are frozen, the chassis yo💃u can play with a bit.

“It’s last year’s♈ bike with a few things that hopef♔ully makes it better. It is better.”